BNC, RJ45, what's the difference anyway =)

[Killbat]

OK, the house is LANified with an Edimax 18-port 10mbps hub. Those 18 ports consist of 16 RJ45 and two AUG/BNC pairs. Now, I have an old ISA LAN card with only AUG/BNC connections on it and some BNC coax cable. Can I use this card to access the TCP/IP network (and Linksys DHCP/router) via thinnet? If the communication can work, how would I go about wiring the card to the hub? What sort of terminations or other things do I need?

 

[nightowl]

To have thin coax ethernet work you need to have a "t" connector on each node and on the 2 end nodes you need to have a 50ohm terminator. Without these the network will not work. I hope this helps you out

 

[Killbat]

I've got the T-connectors. So I just need to wire it with the T's and pop a 50ohm resistor on each T?

 

[nightowl]

Yeah, that is all you need to do. I assume that you are only hooking up the one computer that you mentioned? If so, then that is it. By resistor, do you mean a terminator or an actual resistor? I have never tried using just a resistor to terminate T connections on thin coax, but it may very well work. If not I know that Radio Shack has the terminators. They are located in with their coax connectors (278-xxxx cat # prefix).

 

[spidey07]

don't forget to groud one end of the bus. You could just use a chassis ground from a PC case probably (if your cases is grounded that is)